Total flow management aplicado a uma secção de produção

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Sara Raquel Sequeira de
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/22654
• topic: Gestão da produção; Produção industrial

The environment of daily competitiveness between companies, leads to a necessity of creating efficient processes to satisfy clients’ needs and requirements. In this context, the Total Flow Management (TFM) model emerges with the objective of creating a continuous flow throughout the supply chain, by eliminating waste in the production area, as well as in activities related to internal and external logistics. Although the advantages of the model’s application are well known, there is a gap in the literature regarding its practical application. The presented project resulted from an improvement approach to the existing processes through the application of TFM principles to a specific inlet valve production area. The model’s application requires a previous implementation of fundamental principles to guarantee a satisfactory stability level of the process. Those principles are already in practice within the production area, which constituted a determinant factor for choosing the sector analysed in this work. The project’s scope includes critical processes analysis that raise the need for improvements in specific pillars of the TFM model, as well as the implementation of the model as a consequence of introducing a new product in the assembly line. The analysis intends, through both of this approaches, to guarantee an efficient production flow and also, on the other hand, to demonstrate the advantages of applying the TFM model to an area and to show the impact on the relationships between the different supply chain areas.